Friday, January 16, 2015

Watching
the game of Cricket is made more interesting by the statistics,
commentary, analysis, graphs, visuals,
and more. Information graphics or
infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or
knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. They can
improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system’s
ability to see patterns and trends.

Kevin
Peter Pietersen, was born in Pietermaritzburg,Natal
Province,South Africa, made his first-class debut forNatalin 1997
before moving toEngland, after voicing his displeasure at the racial quota system in
place inSouth Africa. His English mother made him eligible to play forEnglandand after
serving a qualifying period of four years playing at county level, he was
called up almost immediately into the national side. He made his international
debut in the One Day International match againstZimbabwein 2004 ~
scored 8181 test runs in 104 tests with 23 centuries and 444o one day runs in
136 matches. He also took 10 Test
wickets and 7 ODI wickets. ~ the
interesting character has played his last International innings, though has
been trying hard to push a comeback.
There is a strong feeling that he mouthed his way out of reckoning. At that time, British Press including Telegraph stated that KP’s anti-Andy Flower rant
was the final nail in his England career… it is stated that the strong batsman
misjudged the mood of a team meeting and heavily criticised the coach who later
intervened during a disagreement with the captain over practice.

The
talented Kevin is currently playing
cricket for Melbourne Stars in Australia ~ this post is not on whether he
should be recalled or whether he might ever play for England again but on a huge new tattoo on his body. Recently, he stated that Eoin Morgan would
like to have him on the playing side.
However, Eoin Morgan attempted to finally bring to an end to the almost
daily saga of Kevin Pietersen keeping his name in the England frame by
insisting that he has 'the best group of players' with him in Australia.

England's
new one-day captain again found himself answering questions about the exiled
star - who will not go away - when he arrived in Sydney for Friday's resumption
of hostilities with the old enemy. And Morgan's side suffered problems in
making the journey from Canberra when their flight was cancelled and then when
they experienced turbulence on the replacement before the England captain was
given a bumpy ride by the Australian press.

Pietersen
claimed that Morgan wanted him back in the England side in an excruciating
'interview' with Ricky Ponting during a Big Bash game when the great former
Australian captain took his opportunity to stir the English pot. But Morgan
reiterated there was no way back for Pietersen, as he did in Canberra, when he
spoke at the Sydney Cricket Ground ahead of the first one-day international of
a tri-series that also involves India. The Australians have loved keeping the
issue in the spotlight during their Twenty20 competition to crank up the
pressure on England as they return to the scene of the worst tour in their
history a year ago. The bottom line is that too many bridges have been burnt with
England having long since decided to move on without a player who became more trouble
than he is worth ~ and two half-centuries in an Australian Twenty20 competition
does not change that.

Now
getting back to that tattoo – it is a map of the
world, with red stars on selected locations.
The stars indicate everywhere
Pietersen has scored an international 100. In a picture posted on his Instagram site, the
South African-born batsman showed off his new ink, stretching from his chest
around to his back. The map, which Pietersen insists is not the wrong way
around - 'just the reflection!' - has red stars on certain places around the
globe. Mailonline reports that each mark
represents a place that Pietersen has scored an international century for
England - be it Test or ODI - including the United Kingdom, South Africa,
Pakistan and Australia. He has scored 32 international centuries, 23 of those
in Test matches for England over a career spanning nearly nine years. There are seven countries in which Pietersen
has scored a Test century - England, Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand,
Pakistan, India and the West Indies - while South Africa and the UAE are added
to his tattoo with ODI hundreds.

Before it
was clear what the stars indicated, an initial theory was that they marked
locations in which Pietersen has played cricket; a missing star in the
Melbourne area dispelled that particular idea. Indeed, Pietersen is currently
plying his trade in southern Australia, in the Big Bash League for Melbourne
Stars. There is a star in Adelaide, the location of Pietersen's England
centuries in 2006 and 2010, but not in the far south of Melbourne. Pietersen himself fuelled the speculation on
Thursday morning when he tweeted: 'Work the stars out yourself on my last
Instagram post!'

In his
autobiography, the 34-year-old was honest in his assessment of his tattoos,
admitting that he 'overplayed his Englishness' in getting Three Lions inked on
his shoulder. There have been many sportspersons with different tattoos, yet
this map seems to be lot different. Charles Joseph Minard was a French civil engineer recognized for his
significant contribution in the field of information graphics in civil
engineering and statistics. Minard was among other things noted for his
representation of numerical data on geographic maps.